The Swallows
World War has started and every one is suffering. England, Germany, France, Austria- they are all at war. 7050 people die every day. Men have naively agreed to fight because of false propaganda, then die in vain. Tanks, gas, flamethrowers, guns, bombs, planes, torpedoes all around us.
But what about Mabel? 5 year old Mabel has to leave London to the strange, small, quiet town of Piddleton. She is adopted by kind Emily and Danny. But what secrets lie across these village walls? What is flattened into the village air? Mabel's been lied to, but she is the only one that can obtain the truth...